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Wisdom Quotes
"A lion gains nothing from boasting to a dog."
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"Being always right is not always right in the wrong places."
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"When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!"
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"Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging."
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"Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions."
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"He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless."
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"There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst."
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"True riches belong to those who shun false ones."
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"My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane."
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"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."
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"Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion."
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"In life, you don't lose;you learn."
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"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
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"Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses."
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"Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses."
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"Do not only describe your situation, that event, that person, place or that thing. By describing, we limit our thoughts in pondering. We ought to prescribe. The sick describes his illness to the doctor and the doctor prescribes an antidote. We all do have stories to tell in life, we all do face challenges each day, and likewise we experience joyous moments; that is life. To espouse an unpopular cause, prescribe a great antidotes to every life occurrence from daybreak to sunset. Remember prefer prescribe to describe!"
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"A wise person makes one error, and learns ten lessons. He makes two errors, and learns twenty lessons. He makes three errors, and learns thirty lessons. He makes few errors, and learns countless lessons."
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"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
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"This should be one of the basic attitudes-not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered."
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"When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness."
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"What you reject today, you could accept tomorrow. And what you accept today, you could reject tomorrow. Never say never unless you can predict the future."
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"Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life familiar to the Jews of his day. Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos."
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"Learning from the past can help you move forward. Lingering in the past will only hold you back."
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"Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher."
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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
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"A secret spoken finds wings."
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"What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure."
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"If you run after two hares you will catch neither."
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"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."
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"Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding."
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